Career
He entered the service of the Bahmani sultan Muhammad Shah III and later became the prime-minister of the Bahmani sultanate. Some have claimed that Qasim Barid was of Hungarian descent. Qasim Barid I led one of the first revolts against the Bahmani Sultanate.
He was able to get himself made chief of state but had seriously undermined the stability of the kingdom.
The Bahmani governors of Junnar, Bijapur and Berar refused to acknowledge the authority of Qasim Barid and in June,1490 Malik Ahmad Nizam-ul-Mulk, the governor of Junnar founded the independent Ahmednagar Sultanate followed by the foundation of the independent Bijapur Sultanate by Yusuf Adil Khan and Berar Sultanate by Fathullh Imad-ul-Mulk in the same year. The founding of the dynasty occurred in 1492.